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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus

Description

Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by nineteenth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-century combatants, phosphorus is one of nature's deadliest- and most fascinating- creations. Now award-winning author John Emsley combines his gift for storytelling with his scientific expertise to present an enthralling account of this eerily luminescent element. From murders-by-phosphorus where the bodies glowed green, to the match factory strike that helped end child labor in England, to the irony of the World War II firebombing of Hamburg, to even deadlier compounds derived from phosphorus today. The 13th Element weaves together a rich tableau of brilliant and oddball characters, social upheavals, and curious, bizarre, and horrific events that comprise the surprising 300-year history of nature's most nefarious element.

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-05-26
Summary: "Cheap Sensationalism"

If I were at all excited about phosphorus, I would probably find this an interesting book.

The first hundred pages address the history of the alchemists and their attempts to make phosphorus, in a breathless recounting of professional jealousy and completing claims to have discovered.... Oh, sorry I dozed off for a moment there-- a method for its manufacture, mainly using vast quantities of human urine. Early medicinal claims have all been debunked. Well, that covers the first hundred pages.

It has some interesting anecdotes like the history of the Swedish match king, but these have no lasting bearing on the "story," and as I finished reading each anecdote, I couldn't help but thinking, so what?

The most interesting aspects of phosphorus were the ones that relate to daily life. For example the debate about the environmental damage allegedly caused by phosphates in laundry detergent, and how subsequently it was discovered was that the culprits were the heavy metals, oils and insecticides that had killed the zooplankton that eat the algae blooms. I remember the hue and cry over phosphates, and then how the debate quietly slipped away.

The book attempts to compelling but the closest it achieves is sensationalism, with graphic descriptions of the gruesome ailment phossy jaw, the horrors of the incendiary bombs that were dropped on Germany, tales of murder by phosphorus, and a look at how phosphorus might be implicated in what is known as spontaneous human combustion. All in all, The 13th Element left a bad taste in my mouth... wait a minute, what is that taste? I've been poisoned! Arrrrgh.....

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-01-20
Summary: "Eh...It's Ok; Not Great"

I am an avid science/math reader and when I discovered that my friend had this book, I borrowed it from him.

The book discusses a whole range of things about phosphorus including its discovery, how it was first manufactured from urine and feces, how its chemical yield was later significantly improved by manufacturing it from bone instead, its influence in bombings during WWII, its use in pesticides/herbicides, anecdotes of people using it to poison others, its possible influence in spontaneous combustion, etc.

What most disappointed me about the book I think is that it just seemed like a random catalog of anecdote after anecdote. The content did not flow in a way that I cared for. That's not to say there isn't some interesting information covered in it, but I've read better books. This one's maybe worth checking out at the library and reading once if you're into science/science history, but that's about it.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-06-28
Summary: "Suprisingly Interesting"

I was required to read this book for a high school chemistry course this past year. While I am not typically fond of scientific reading, especially regarding elements and their uses, I found this book to be surprisingly entertaining and informational. Emsley combines both scientific facts and human interest stories to make the novel a worthwhile read for anyone with a slight background in chemistry. I enjoyed the book much more than I had originally thought I would, and was able to read it cover to cover in about two weeks. There were a few chapters that I found rather dull towards the beginning, more specifically the medical chapter and the initial chapters detailing the discovery of phosphorous. I am sure someone of a more scientific mind would find these chapters enjoyable, but I was personally bored by them. I also found several grammatical and spelling errors throughout the pages that have nothing to do with differences between the American and English dialects. Overall, I found the book interesting enough for a piece of assigned reading. I would recommend The 13th Element mainly to science students looking for an engrossing read or high school teachers looking for a fairly easy book to assign students.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-11-24
Summary: "Not the best written, but interesting enough"

I had read Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball previously, and this book seemed to fit into the niche of something I would enjoy.

The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus is an interesting book, filled with interesting material to support it's subject. However I wouldn't exactly call it particularly well written. Not well enough to recommend to those who aren't scientists in profession or heart.

I believe the problem is that it lacked cohesiveness. As if he was writing off an outline, but found it difficult to actually stick to his outline.

I found it amusing to start with how he would often go on and on and then say, well we'll talk about this in Chapter 10, or for more on this see Chapter 3, or for more on that see Chapter 5, or even, we covered this in Chapter 2 (not exact quotes, I don't have the book in front of me).

His chapters were often formatted to go from the first documented discovery of phosphorus forward a couple of centuries. Then the next chapter would bring you back again to the 17th century and might go as far forward as the present, but only if the present wasn't covered in a future chapter.

The chapter on human combustion provided a large number of examples to support the different sides of the discussion, however I was left wondering what had been left out as many on both were nearly identical as to description; minus names, dates, and places.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-03-20
Summary: "A fun history of the element Phosphorus"

An easy, entertaining read. Fun and informative.
I'm sure glad I don't work in a match factory in 1900.